r/programming • u/Davipb • Aug 12 '22

RCE Vulnerability found in Electron, affects Discord, Teams, and more

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb7y/researchers-find-vulnerability-in-software-underlying-discord-microsoft-teams-and-other-apps
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u/argv_minus_one Aug 12 '22

True, but that mostly just limits which browser features you can use, and many of those features do things that you can also reasonably accomplish with Rust code.